...Acreage Holdings Inc.’s earliest shareholders has come out in favor of its sale to Canopy Growth Corp. as the target company’s shares languish well below the offer price. Cresco Capital Partners LLC, which has owned Acre...

An investors opposition to Canopy Growth Corp.s acquisition of Acreage Holdings Inc. may signal a new trend for an industry thats largely been free from shareholder activism. Marcato Capital Management, which holds Acreage shares, has said it will vote against the deal because it undervalues the New York-based company...

Trian Fund Management LP may wage an activist campaign at Legg Mason Inc. and push the money manager to improve its flagging results, according to people familiar with the matter. Trian recently has held discussions with Legg Mason management about the need to cut costs and improve profit margins, the people said. The two sides may still negotiate a settlement that sidesteps a proxy fight, they added...

...pany simply can no longer compete against the scale of Amazon (AMZN) and retail giants like Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) that are getting into the home décor segment. I believe the success of RH and WSM in the home déc...

...gher degree of pay and performance misalignment for Russell 3000 companies in 2018 than was observed in 2017. Target CEO pay rose last year after 2017’s strong stock market performance, but performance stalled in 2018—to...

Vanguard Group is taking a tougher stance against companies whose board members it believes are stretched too thin.
The worlds second-largest asset manager plans to vote, in most cases, against corporate executives running for two or more public-company board seats beyond where they are employed, a Vanguard spokeswoman said. Vanguard said it would generally vote against other board candidates seeking more than four board seats at one time...

...rries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Target Corporation ( Free Report) has a long term earnings growth rate of 6.3% and currently carries a Zacks R...

...ing the Two Every Investor Should Own) What Is an ETF? How to Beat the Market Billy Duberstein owns shares of Target. His clients may own shares of the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Home Depot and Lowe'...

...ever, changes to the board have increased notably since 2014 and have consistently impacted a majority of the target companies after a proxy contest that went to a vote. Activist funds are now holding investments longer,...

...SEATTLE -- Amazon is now the No. 1 target of activist shareholders. The Seattle-based global commerce and technology giant was pushed past ExxonMobil and Chevron in 2019, receiving the most shareholder resoluti...

...mpanies... (Bloomberg) -- Australia is making a big gender equality push in the corporate sphere -- setting a target for women to hold 30 percent of board seats for S&P/ASX 300 companies by the end of 2021. The 30% Club ...

...completed, Disney said Monday in a regulatory filing. That’s 28 percent less than the initial US$48.5 million target. The company didn’t provide a reason for the change. The cut precedes Disney’s March 7 annual meeting, ...

...gled this year to ramp up production to even that level, 500,000 cars would seem like a steep challenge. That target was also significantly higher than what the company had previously suggested it would produce, which wa...

Being taken over is a very personal matter for a board member and often their identity is tied to their position. If they are the target, they don't want to also be the victim and will push back where they can